FKIE_CVE-2007-5769

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-12-06 15:46 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:46
Severity
Summary
Double free vulnerability in the getreply function in ftp.c in netkit ftp (netkit-ftp) 0.17 20040614 and later allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via some types of FTP protocol behavior. NOTE: the netkit-ftpd issue is covered by CVE-2007-6263.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199206Exploit, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ftp/F-8/netkit-ftp-0.17-sigseg.patch?view=autoExploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119704348003382&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26764
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199206Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ftp/F-8/netkit-ftp-0.17-sigseg.patch?view=autoExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119704348003382&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26764
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
netkit-ftp netkit_ftp 0.17
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